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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart's_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart's_law I'm sure he has learned a lot, but when you study with an interview i
by whatever_dude 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart's_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart's_law
I'm sure he has learned a lot, but when you study with an interview in mind, you're not necessarily studying to be a good developer; you're studying to look like one. There's some correlation, but it's not the same thing.
- prashnts 10y agoThis is so true. There are coaching centres here in India, pulling in millions each year to prepare kids for the premier engineering institutes here. Hundreds of thousands of kids join these, but I am still to see even 10% of them working on interesting problems. Like another comment here notes, most of them are becoming a commodity.